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Should farmers farm more? : comparing marginal products within Malawian households
Brummund, Peter; Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2021
access to insurance of farming activities and wage employment opportunities could increase total household income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612629
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The gendered effects of climate change: production shocks and labor response in agriculture
Afridi, Farzana; Mahajan, Kanika; Sangwan, Nikita - 2021
Climate change has increased rainfall uncertainty, leading to greater production risks in agriculture. We examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592972
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Air pollution and agricultural productivity in a developing country
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2023
I document negative externalities of air pollution in the Indian agricultural sector. Using variation in pollution induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity, with large changes in productivity being common. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014315725
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Spatial differences in stunting and household agricultural production in South Africa : (re-)examining the links using national panel survey data
Otterbach, Steffen; Rogan, Michael - 2017
South Africa is one of only a handful of countries in which the prevalence of child stunting has increased over the period during which progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) has been monitored. One explanation for this reversal is that Big Food retail chains have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732006
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Heterogeneity and government revenues : higher taxes at the top?
Guner, Nezih; Lopez-Daneri, Martin; Ventura, Gustavo - 2014
We evaluate the effectiveness of a more progressive tax scheme in raising government revenues. We develop a life-cycle economy with heterogeneity and endogenous labor supply. Households face a progressive income tax schedule, mimicking the Federal Income tax, and flat-rate taxes that capture...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386338
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Anatomy of policy complementarities
Orszag, Jonathan Michael; Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
The analysis provides a new explanation for two widespread problems concerning European unemployment policy: the disappointingly small effect of many past reform measures on unemployment, and the political difficulties in implementing more extensive reform programs. We argue that the heart of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011295418
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The agricultural origins of time preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010403576
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Smallholders, market failures, and agricultural production: evidence from India
Merfeld, Joshua D. - 2020
employment opportunities. Since non-smallholders have to hire in for agricultural production, this lack of opportunities does not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290639
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607330
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Non-farm enterprise productivity and spatial autocorrelation in rural Africa : evidence from Ethiopia and Nigeria
Owoo, Nkechi S.; Naudé, Wim - 2014
from the geo-referenced 2011 Ethiopian Rural Socioeconomic Survey (ERSS) and the 2010/2011 Nigeria General Household Survey … productive. In Nigeria, we find evidence for spatial autocorrelation at the individual enterprise level but not at the community … significant determinants of the labour productivity of non-farm enterprises in Ethiopia and Nigeria. This is the first time, to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010379209